Panorama of destroyed Hiroshima after the nuclear detonation in 1945 (click to enlarge)

Mahatma Gandhi’s worldly possessions, ca. 1948

Post war reunion of U.S soldier William Best and 19-year old Joseph Guttman, whom he liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, New York 1948

Marc Riboud’s photo of Zazou, the Eiffel tower’s painter, Paris, 1953

1955 Huffy-Radiobike. It has a radio! Solves the no earbuds problem.

A teenager at an Elvis Presley concert at the Philadelphia Arena on April 6, 1957

Civil rights activist James Zwerg after being beaten by a white mob in Alabama, 1961. (After the beating he had to wait two hours for treatment as no white crew would pick him up.)

Doctors in protective clothing during an outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw, Poland; July 20, 1963

The game goes on in spite of the November, 1965 fire at Silliman Hall on the campus of Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts. The building burned down to the ground and the game was lost too.

The day Bob Dylan and John Lennon met, 1966

Salvador Dali taking his anteaters for a walk in Paris, 1969

Skinheads and hippies in Piccadilly Circus, 1969

The Beatles are preparing for their famous crossing of Abbey Road, 1969

US Marine prepares to enter a Vietcong tunnel, 1969

Anton Szandor, founder and arch-priest of the Church of Satan, in 1970

World Trade Center during the holiday season, ca. mid 70’s

Over 3300 Vietnamese orphans are evacuated and transported by airplanes to the US, 1975

A man uses an American flag to assault civil rights activist, 1976

Patrick Zachmann’s photo of two lovers in Paris during flooding of the Seine, February, 1978

Women protesting the forced Hijab in Iran, days after the 1979 Revolution

Mount St. Helens before and after the eruption in 1980

Onlookers react to the explosion of Challenger, January 28, 1986

106 year old Armenian woman guards her home in southern Armenia in 1990

Participants in the Miss Besieged Sarajevo ’93 beauty pageant line up on stage in front of a packed audience in Sarajevo Saturday. The 13 contenders held a banner reading ‘Don’t Let Them Kill Us’. May 29, 1993

“This CD-ROM can hold more information than all the paper that’s here below me”. Bill Gates,1994

A Butterfly lands on the face of a resting Bosnian Serb soldier, near the Eastern Herzegovinia town of Konjic, 1995

An overhead view of Atlantis as it sits atop the Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) before STS-79 in 1996